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virginia, you know, what in virginia? and that's -- you know, the secret to virginia for the president is that, romney and ryan are basically alienating federal workers in virginia. saying we're going to cut the size of government. that's going over well there. plus the demographic divide in the state that i think president obama is uniquely able to exploit. and i think that that's why he's leading. >> so has mitt romney's message, how does it stay -- >> i was in ohio a few weeks ago, and you really see what we're talking ak. there was a joint meeting between kasich and romney and romney was saying to the audience, how terrible, it's awful. practically out of a movie in the '30s and casey would say, you young people, this economy son its way back. i was told, the romney people weren't entirely thrilled about that message, and it's a trick. i mean, it's a -- >> republicans have been trying to argue, hey, look at republican governor, and things are improving whether it's republican governors -- they're trying to figure ow h
virginia, you know, what in virginia? and that's -- you know, the secret to virginia for the president is that, romney and ryan are basically alienating federal workers in virginia. saying we're going to cut the size of government. that's going over well there. plus the demographic divide in the state that i think president obama is uniquely able to exploit. and i think that that's why he's leading. >> so has mitt romney's message, how does it stay -- >> i was in ohio a few weeks...
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virginia is a little wider than expected. before florida a five-point lead in such a conservative state this late in the game with few undecided voters is really telling, but the ohio number again continues to be -- >> devastating. >> the dagger in the romney campaign's heart if they can't -- if they can't pull that out and make that a closer race. that is -- seven points in ohio is devastating. right tracks, wrong tracks in these states. all much better than they are in the rest of america. ohio, right track, 40% of ohio voters think the country is headed in the right direction. >> look at those three numbers up there, 44, 49, 50. those numbers are approaching the numbers you need to win those states and they are places the president, even though he's had a lead in those states, he hasn't been at 49 and 50 before, number one. number two, the ohio number is incredibly important and it's a state where the strength of organized labor the president always had -- >> you were saying yesterday ohio was one of the few states where l
virginia is a little wider than expected. before florida a five-point lead in such a conservative state this late in the game with few undecided voters is really telling, but the ohio number again continues to be -- >> devastating. >> the dagger in the romney campaign's heart if they can't -- if they can't pull that out and make that a closer race. that is -- seven points in ohio is devastating. right tracks, wrong tracks in these states. all much better than they are in the rest of...
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virginia as well by seven points. and in the state of florida, which is packed with conservatives, as joe has pointed out many times, the president now leads mitt romney 49-44%. it would be nearly impossible, of course, for mitt romney to win the 270 electoral votes he needs without florida which carries 29 votes. a cnn poll, meanwhile, shows the president leading mitt romney by eight points in the state of michigan. and in wisconsin, a new marquette poll of likely voters shows a race now a spread of 14 points in the state of wisconsin. katty kay, that's a state that the romney campaign had hoped to be competitive in with the addition of paul ryan to the ticket. but when you look at the totality of the polls we just went through, what do you see? >> well, you know, it's hard to see how it looks good. and the only redeeming feature for the romney campaign must be that we're 47 days away, right? and that they must be hoping that there is still time to turn these things around and to try and get some of these poll number
virginia as well by seven points. and in the state of florida, which is packed with conservatives, as joe has pointed out many times, the president now leads mitt romney 49-44%. it would be nearly impossible, of course, for mitt romney to win the 270 electoral votes he needs without florida which carries 29 votes. a cnn poll, meanwhile, shows the president leading mitt romney by eight points in the state of michigan. and in wisconsin, a new marquette poll of likely voters shows a race now a...
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there is a way to get to exactly 270 without ohio and virginia. it involves winning colorado -- >> wisconsin right now, down in colorado, down in virginia, according to the latest polls, but go ahead. >> he'd have to win basically five states where he's currently down. new hampshire, wisconsin, iowa, nevada, colorado. if he won those and he held north carolina and all the mccain states, that gets him to exactly 270. i'll say again, he's got to win states he's behind. but one must ask the question, can he win without ohio and virginia? and the answer is yes. he barely can. but it doesn't involve coming back in some other places. >> i want to just do a little work session with you and go back to what we talked about because the more i think about it, i actually think there's an opportunity to seize on rage, for lack of a better word and to once again say what i said yesterday i said it the wrong way, but you know what? i'm glad i opened the door because this is what this means. this country is going down. i am mad that 47% and the other 53%, nobody
there is a way to get to exactly 270 without ohio and virginia. it involves winning colorado -- >> wisconsin right now, down in colorado, down in virginia, according to the latest polls, but go ahead. >> he'd have to win basically five states where he's currently down. new hampshire, wisconsin, iowa, nevada, colorado. if he won those and he held north carolina and all the mccain states, that gets him to exactly 270. i'll say again, he's got to win states he's behind. but one must...
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they're opening up next week in ohio on tuesday. >> virginia is already voting. >> virginia is already voting. guess what? you can tell i'm an old guy and i ran a decade or two ago. >> you got all the states and rules wrong. >> i got the rules wrong. thinking in terms of a 1980 campaign that is not the reality. look at the people lined up to vote. mitt romney has to turn this around now. >> the problem is that adds even more pressure. early on romney had multiple points to change the narrative in his favor. you know, wrapping up the nomination, picking his vice president. now we're down to the last one. it's the debates. >> right. >> and that adds an enormous amount of pressure. >> because of the early voting, it's the first debate. he's got to turn it around the first debate and needs to keep people in the game the first debate. >> did you know mccain beat obama on election day in iowa and that obama got his margin of victory there strictly from early voting? they know that and they're doing it much more robustly this time around. >> the president is urging it on the stump. >> if you
they're opening up next week in ohio on tuesday. >> virginia is already voting. >> virginia is already voting. guess what? you can tell i'm an old guy and i ran a decade or two ago. >> you got all the states and rules wrong. >> i got the rules wrong. thinking in terms of a 1980 campaign that is not the reality. look at the people lined up to vote. mitt romney has to turn this around now. >> the problem is that adds even more pressure. early on romney had multiple...
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and bob mcdonald in virginia especially. >> right. you have a republican candidate who wants to argue the economy is not getting better. you have a republican governor in ohio saying the auto industry is irrelevant to ohio and therefore what obama did with the auto industry is irrelevant. by the way, it's good he didn't let it go. >> they're convoluting the messages. >> you can't make that sell. >> if you look to the electoral map months ago, two years ago before we started, this was going to be difficult for whoever the republican nominee was, to peel back all these swing states that president obama won in 2008. states like ohio obviously important, but florida, which is tied right now neck in neck, if mitt romney doesn't win florida, it's over. >> it shouldn't be tied. >> it's tied. >> barack obama for two, three years had approval ratings in the low 40s in florida. >> yeah. and the state's controlled by republicans for the most part. >> yeah. >> now you have this medicare issue that president obama's using against the romney campai
and bob mcdonald in virginia especially. >> right. you have a republican candidate who wants to argue the economy is not getting better. you have a republican governor in ohio saying the auto industry is irrelevant to ohio and therefore what obama did with the auto industry is irrelevant. by the way, it's good he didn't let it go. >> they're convoluting the messages. >> you can't make that sell. >> if you look to the electoral map months ago, two years ago before we...
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we've even got a little bit of rain to talk about moving through virginia. going to be driving south of d.c. on i-95, anywhere down there, you could see some showers and hit and miss, maybe thunderstorms too. going to try to cross over the chesapeake. also a few showers down there, southern portions of new jersey. otherwise, expect partly cloudy skies up through new england today and temperatures willing on the warm side. we will see highs today once again in the 80s, only exception near the water there in boston, slightly cooler. middle of the country, how hot has this summer been? oklahoma through texas, we're still in the hundreds, 103 today in dallas. thankfully you will cool off as we go through the upcoming weekend. a few storms in the southeast, including north carolina today. the only item to watch of concern possibly over the next couple days, slow development is possible of an area of low pressure in the gulf of mexico. this could become a tropical depression and try to slide towards north florida or central florida as we go throughout the upcoming
we've even got a little bit of rain to talk about moving through virginia. going to be driving south of d.c. on i-95, anywhere down there, you could see some showers and hit and miss, maybe thunderstorms too. going to try to cross over the chesapeake. also a few showers down there, southern portions of new jersey. otherwise, expect partly cloudy skies up through new england today and temperatures willing on the warm side. we will see highs today once again in the 80s, only exception near the...
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you look at a state like virginia which is so important. and you look at that gender gap that the "washington post" poll shows, the advantage for president obama, the advantage for tim kaine. that is something that romney has to sort of live with because of a lot of the politics, republican politics that have gone on in that state over the issue of abortion. so this becomes really, really difficult. and joe, as you've been talking about and others have as well, since he got the nomination, has there been a period when mitt romney's had some real momentum in this race? we keep talking about -- everyone i talk to says look, these are the right conditions for him to be running in for him to be the nominee, and he has yet to really harness that and build real momentum. we keep talking about rehabilitative work he wanted to do in his convention. he has yet to really hit his stride in that regard, and now we're gearing up for the all-important debates. he doesn't have a lot of moments left to create that hot hand. >> he needs to get a hot hand fa
you look at a state like virginia which is so important. and you look at that gender gap that the "washington post" poll shows, the advantage for president obama, the advantage for tim kaine. that is something that romney has to sort of live with because of a lot of the politics, republican politics that have gone on in that state over the issue of abortion. so this becomes really, really difficult. and joe, as you've been talking about and others have as well, since he got the...
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florida is tighter, virginia a little bit tighter. in all those cases, the president is ahead. you can't classify this race as a toss-up. the president is ahead. romney, it's not -- of course it's not insurmountable, but the pressure's on romney to win. >> so romney has a challenge on his hands for sure. mark halperin, leading into the debates, how, then, do you coax, cajole information out of these candidates given the scenario that chuck just laid out that actually gives you something that you can make a decision on as a voter? >> well, i think the big question for romney is performance. look at what he did on "60 minutes." he talked on the plane last night to his press corps. he's still giving the same kinds of answers, the same specificity and lack of specificity, the same failure to drive a message to put the president on the defensive. if you're a candidate behind and you have that long "60 minutes" interview where you make the choice to talk to your press corps, you've got to drive something that dominates the news rather than the same old questions about low level of pe
florida is tighter, virginia a little bit tighter. in all those cases, the president is ahead. you can't classify this race as a toss-up. the president is ahead. romney, it's not -- of course it's not insurmountable, but the pressure's on romney to win. >> so romney has a challenge on his hands for sure. mark halperin, leading into the debates, how, then, do you coax, cajole information out of these candidates given the scenario that chuck just laid out that actually gives you something...